Rangers play an important role in protecting the planet's natural resources and biodiversity. They work tirelessly to ...

COP16 has made its mark. Hailed as the biggest biodiversity COP ever, with a record number of delegates (around 23,000), a High-level Segment attended by six Heads of States, more than 130 Ministers ...

Sports have a unique opportunity to address the nature crisis. IUCN has been working with key partners on developing the Sports for Nature Initiative to contribute to global efforts to halt and ...

The Guidelines aim to be equally relevant for any taxon on Earth. Recent experience has shown that no two planning situations are the same. So while the principles of planning may be constant, the ...

Due to their large size, swans have few natural predators, their main threat is human activity; either in the form of degradation/destruction of habitat, hunting and ...

Spiders and Scorpions are the best - known groups of a remarkably diverse class of arthropods, the arachnids. They are ubiquitous in terrestrial ecosystems, thriving in some of the harshest ... It is ...

Scaling up the EbA approach to increase the resilience to climate change of vulnerable communities and ecosystems in rural areas of Ecuador, Guatemala and Costa Rica. Latin American Countries (LAC) ...

The Draft International Covenant on Environment is an ongoing contribution of the International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL) and the IUCN Environmental Law Programme (IUCN ELP) to provide a ...

The EU's first comprehensive, union-wide legislation for nature restoration, the EU Nature Restoration Regulation, has come into force. This legislation marks a significant milestone since the 1992 ...

Caves and karst areas present complex challenges to land managers in terms of their geodiversity and biodiversity. The goal of the Caves and Karst Working Group is to facilitate the conservation of ...

For billions of people throughout the world especially the poorest wetlands are critical for livelihoods. Wetlands are also home to an enormous diversity of wildlife, much of it unique to freshwater ...

Our Technical Note Series provides short, explanatory briefings on specific technical and policy issues related to protected and conserved areas. We have published seven Technical Notes to date.